Re: [vile] Accented (and other extended) characters lost when pasting into vile, OK otherwise.

[Thomas Dickey]

yOn Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Chris G wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:36:22AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:01:26PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > > I am also struggling with the release system, since I accidently created
> > > > an upgrade path from 9.6-k1 to 9.6m-1.  While this may seem correct, the
> > > > 'm' is a upstream-side thing not a Debian thing, the patching was done
> > > > in Debian space.  So I'd like to continue doing this, now that I have
> > > > made this mistake but I was wondering if Vile could be released as new
> > > > upstream tarball next to the patch, so that I can tear down this
> > > > "Debian-space patching".
> > > I'm not sure I even follow this!  :-)
> >
> > Debian generally has an original upstream tarball, plus diffs.  Given
> > that the available original tarball for the current version is
> > actually vile-9.7.tgz, that gets shipped by Debian as
> > vile_9.7.orig.tar.gz (a simple rename), and patches 'a' through 'j'
> > are then applied and end up in the accompanying vile_9.7-j1.diff.gz
> > (the additional "1" caters for any Debian-specific changes).
> >
> > What Paul is saying, is that if Tom were to provide vile-9.7j.tar.gz
> > then the process would be simpler.

I suppose it would be possible to make a script that generates the Debian
package script, by scanning the vile/patches directory, etc.  Based on
comments for the various packages, I don't think I've run into anyone
doing just that though -

> I sort of guessed the explanation was something along these lines.
>
> Is the reason for supplying the 'official' latest version of
> vile as a base version plus a series of patches still the need to
> conserve space on the FTP site?

no (I have more diskspace now, though there's a limit - not enough to 
host lynx for instance).

I do store old(er) tarballs for xterm, and clean them out periodically.
Each time I do that (overdue ;-), someone complains - no matter how old 
the file is.

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